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MESHUGGAH Guitarist: JAMES HETFIELD's 'Rhythm Chops Are Incredible'

Ultimate-Guitar.com recently conducted an interview with MESHUGGAH guitarist Mrten Hagstrm. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Ultimate-Guitar.com: Which guitarists influenced your style the most when you first started playing guitar? Mrten Hagstrm: I first started playing, at least seriousl...

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GOD FORBID To Play Hometown Show For The First Time In A Decade

New Jersey metal titans GOD FORBID have issued the following update: "GOD FORBID will be taking some time from the studio to do a couple shows next month. First off, we will be playing in our hometown of New Brunswick, NJ for the first time in nearly a decade. The show will take place at ...

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MESHUGGAH Drummer: 'This Album Is Almost Like A Sample Platter Of Everything That We've Done'

Adrien Begrand of PopMatters recently conducted an interview with MESHUGGAH drummer Tomas Haake. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On the band's sixth full-length album, "obZen": "This album is almost like a sample platter of everything that we've done through the years, and in that it's less foc...

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Reunited BIOHAZARD Confirmed For Germany's WITH FULL FORCE Festival

The reunited original lineup of BIOHAZARD has been confirmed for this year's With Full Force festival, set to take place July 4-6, 2008 at Flugplatz Roitzschjora in Lbnitz, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: IN FLAMES MACHINE HEAD CAVALERA CONSPIRACY MINISTRY AGNOSTIC FRONT AVEN...

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MINISTRY: 'C U LaTouR' Promo Clip Available

A three-minute promotional video for MINISTRY's final world tour C U LaTouR which kicks off March 25 in Spokane, Washington, can be viewed below. The 38-date trek features special guests MESHUGGAH and opening act HEMLOCK, and winds down in mid-May with multiple nights in MINISTRY frontman Al Jourgen...

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Slovenia's METALCAMP Festival: Main-Stage Running Order Announced

The organizers of the Metalcamp festival which is set to take place July 3-9, 2008 in Tolmin, Slovenia have announced the running order for the main stage at this year's event, which celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2008. It is as follows: Friday, July 4: IN FLAMES IN EXTREMO SIX FEET UNDER WINTE...

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MESHUGGAH Guitarist: 'We Have A Sense Of Being Self-Indulgent'

Patrick Douglas of the Great Falls Tribune recently conducted an interview with MESHUGGAH guitarist Mrten Hagstrm. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On the observation that it would be virtually impossible for another band to copy the MESHUGGAH style: "We have a sense of being self-indulgen...

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THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE Signs With LIFEFORCE RECORDS

Lifeforce Records has announced the signing of Lancaster, Pennsylvania's THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE. THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE encompasses a sound that melds the fine Pennsylvania traditions that have brought us the likes of AUGUST BURNS RED, A LIFE ONCE LOST and THIS DAY FORWARD while taking their musical...

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MINISTRY: 'Cover Up' Samples To Be Made Available Next Week

MINISTRY head honcho Al Jourgensen has enlisted the help of some of metal's finest for MINISTRY AND CO-CONSPIRATORS' "Cover Up". Due out on April Fools Day, the album features covers of some of rock music's absolute classics from the likes of DEEP PURPLE, T.REX, ZZ TOP, THE DOORS, MOUNTAIN, BOB DYLA...

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LIFE OF AGONY Confirmed For Germany's WITH FULL FORCE Festival

LIFE OF AGONY has been confirmed for this year's With Full Force festival, set to take place July 4-6, 2008 at Flugplatz Roitzschjora in Lbnitz, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: IN FLAMES MACHINE HEAD CAVALERA CONSPIRACY MINISTRY AGNOSTIC FRONT AVENGED SEVENFOLD 1349 A.O.K. BE...

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ENGEL To Be Featured On XM RADIO's 'Indecent Exposure'

This Sunday, March 23, ENGEL will be featured on "Indecent Exposure" with Grant Random. Grant will play a track off the band's new CD, "Absolute Design". "Indecent Exposure" can be heard from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. EST on XM channel 48 SQUIZZ. "Absolute Design", the debut album from ENGEL the Gothen...

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MESHUGGAH Drummer Comments On 'obZen' U.S. Chart Debut

It's been three years since Sweden's MESHUGGAH last released a studio album and toured North America, but given their recent achievements, such as debuting at #59 on the American The Billboard 200 chart 9with first-week sales of 11,400 copies),clinching the #14 spot on the iTunes Top Rock Albums ch...

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ObZen

There seem to be two divergent schools of thought on MESHUGGAH: those people whose perspective was permanently altered by the band's revolutionary "Destroy Erase Improve" and "Chaosphere" albums, and who've been unable to warm up to what the band's been up to since then, and those who discovered the...

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Singer CARLOS ZEMA Quits OUTWORLD

Singer Carlos Zema has left Texas prog metallers OUTWORLD due to "different views concerning the bands music, as well as to pursue other interestes in his career." Commented Zema: "I really think it's time to explain the reasons why I decided to not be a part of OUTWORLD any longer. I had to leave m...

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GUS OF SWEDEN: New Single Posted Online

GUS OF SWEDEN, the Swedish project featuring former/current members of DEFLESHED, MISERY LOVES CO. and F.K.., has posted a new two-song single, "Tell Your God to Ready for Blood", on its MySpace page. The tracks are as follows: 01. Raging Swine 02. I Would Die to be Alive Both songs were recorded at...